The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 15, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1933 Page Three Ritchie Machine Threw Armwood to Lynchers to Hold the Eastern Shore Votes \Steel Mills Lay Off Thousands in South Chicago Under NRA Blue Eagle Head Is Stockholder in U. S. Steel Co.; Tells Workers Wages Must Be Cut; Get No Relief (By a Worker Corre=pondent.) CHICAGO, Ill, Noy. 14.—In the past few weeks there were thousands of steel workers laid off in the Illinois Steel Co. and Republic Steel Co. { | @ their families face a winter of cold, starvation and misery, In order to rally the workers together, four mass meetings were held in different parts Because some of ® ) » { you imagine a stockholder in the U. Steel production has fallen below 25 of South Chicago. the workers had ideas that the N. R. A. would help them, a committee was | formed to visit the local N. R. A. Office. This committee was composed of Mexican, Negro, white and for- eign-born workers. We arived at the N. R. A. office) and were given an interview with Mr. Adamson. We stated our case to him very carefully, pointing out to him about the stories-in the papers about what the N. R. A. was going to do about bringing back prosperity. We then asked him what the N. R. A. is going to do about the lay-offs, Relief Cut Off Mr. Adamson replied that in a couple of months the ‘N. R. A. was/ going to enforce the steel codes, but if the steel mills did not have oy} orders it. was necessaty to lay off the | workers. We then asked him why the steel bosses laid off workers and let them keep their brass check, be- cause as long as they! carry their brass check they cannot get help from the relief station. He stated those question > pot the control of the N. R. A., that he would Send us over to see h Cock of the Department of Commerce. Mr. Cook told us the steel mills could not keep men on the payrolls if they did not get orders for steel. One of the workers told him the U. S. Steel Corporation was still pay- ing dividends on their preferred stock | with money that was ground out of the toil of the workers. Mr. Cook denied this, stating that he was a stockholder in the U. S. Steel and he did not get his dividends. Can }. 8. Steel Corporation holding down Scab Contract for, per cent, These steel workers and UMW Leaders Sign Utah Coal Fields: Make ‘No-Strike’ Pact to Oust NMU from Struggles By PAUL CROUCH SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—tIn an effort to crush the struggles of the Utah miners under the leadership of the National Miners Union for better conditions, the operators of this state have officially recognized the United Mine Workers of America, and signed a contract with the U, M. W. A. offi- cials. Not even one improvement in the conditions of the miners is provided for by this contract, which is tc remain in force until April, 193¢, The minimum wage provided for Utah miners by the code is to remain in effect during this period, pledging the U .M. W. A. to prevent (so far as they can) any demands for increased wages, even in the face of tremen- dous increases in the cost of living. While the code is used effectively for strike-breaking purposes in this contract, with a definite no strike pledge being given, there is the most open violation of the “minimum wage guarantees” so far as the young miners are concerned. The code pro- W.LR. Raises Funds! for Cotton Pickers) and Gallup Strikers || LOS ANGELES Nov. 14.—The | Inter- | | newly-organized Workers’ national Relief of this city, through the strike relief solidarity front it hurriedly organized, sent nine truckloads of food and $95.48 to the striking cotton pickers of Southern California and $125.50 to the striking miners in Gallup, N.M. “Fragments of an Empire” will be shown by the Los Angeles W. I. R. at Labor Unity Hall, 546 South Los Angeles St., Sunday, Dec. 3, at 8 to secure fi tinue and broaden W. I. ties Funds Urgently Needed for Fight for Scottsboro 9, I. L. D. Head Appeals for Immediate Contributions NEW YORK. mass lynching is being prepared for the Scottsboro Boys,” William L, Patterson, na- tional secretary of the International Labor Defense declared yesterday in an appeal for immediate organization of mass defense and the collection of funds to save the Scottsboro Boys. “The Scottsboro boys will be led into court again on Nov. 27. . “The facts proclaiming their in- nocence have been piled high, one upon the other by the International Labor Defense and now on top of these, rests the opinion of Judge Horton granting Heywood Patterson %.{ the job of enforcing the steel codes vides for a “minimum” wage in the ‘on this corporation. Utah field of $4.46 per day for outside workers and $5.44 per day for inside \ * | ] i } Will Go to Washington Mr. Cook’s ‘only recommendation was to send a telegram to Mr. Roose- velt, and we told him we would send @ delegation down to Washington to see the President. This delegation will bring the report back from the N. R. A. to the workers’ mass meet- ing on Friday night, The important thing about this visit to the N. R. A. administrator was to expose the N. R. A. to the workers as a lot of bunk. The Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union is calling on all workers to be at the mass meeting at Eagles Hall on ‘Thuraday, Noy. 16, to organize a fight for relief of the unemployed steel workers. Amter to Speak on Jobless Insurance in Detroit, Noy. 16 I, Amter, National Secretary of the Unemployed Councils, will speak in troit on Thursday, Nov. 16, at :30 p.m. on “Unemployment In- gurance and No. N.R.A.” He will speak at Finnish Hall, 5969 14th St,, near McGraw, under the auspices of the Unemp‘oyed Council's of Detroit. On Nov. 20, Monday, he will speak im Cleveland at the Grdina Hall, 6021 St. Clair Ave. on the same subject. Local speakers will include A, R. On- day and Charles Baxter. Milk Price Boosted One Cent By Board ALBANY, N. ¥., Noy. 13.—An in- erease of a cent a quart in milk, pegging the price to 11 cents, has been ordered by the Milk Control work. This contract, however, pro- vides for the employment of young workers between the ages of 17 and 19, at both inside and outside work, at 44 cents per hour, or $3.52 per day! The young workers are to be employed as couplers, car oilers, bone.’ pickers, trappers, dummy makers and greasers. This means, i other words, that many older workers will be re- placed by young workers at almost $2 (in the case of inside work) below the “minimum” supposed to be “guar- anteed.” Other provisions of the contract guarantee the right of the companies to continue the check-off for rent, mining expenses, light, water, etc., and also provides for a check-off ta the U. M. W. A. officials. There is no provision for payment for “dead work,” reduction of rent The miners, who were not per- mitted to have rank and file represen- tation at the conferences with the operators, are demanding the right to vote on acceptance or rejection In an effort to crush all protest against this contract and open sell- out, the companies are starting a new campaign of intimidation and are trying to force the miners to leave the National Miners Union and join the U. M. W. A. At the Mutual mine the company has announced that they repudiate their signed agreement rec- ognizing the National Miners Union and have recognized the U.M.W.A. Seven of the most militant miners there, members of the N.M.U., have been fired. All of these efforts on the part of the operators and the U.M.W.A. offi- cials, however, are failing to crush the struggle of the miners for better conditions, and many U.M.W.A, mem- bers, who now understand the trea- cherous role of their leaders,are turn- Board today. This order is effective in the Catskill, Elmira, Glens Falls, Kingston, Newburgh and Rochester marketing areas, as well as all of Monroe County. Sports Column of the Daily Worker in Collaboration LL . with the Labor Sports PRESENTS CLARENCE HATHAWAY, Editor of the Daily Worker |} ana ——in a Talk on—— “SPORTS AisD Announcer: JOE FREEMAN WRESTLING Tickets on Sale: Workers Bookshop, 50 126th St.; Labor Sports Union, 813 Broad E. 13th St.; Harlem Labor Temple, General ing to the National Miners Union. The United Front of all miners is be- coming a slogan in answer to the sell- out contract signed by the operators and the U.M.W.A. officials. Union WILLIAM L. PATTERSON @ new trial. This opinion not only substantiates the facts accumuated by the International Labor Defense; it annihilates the testimony of Vic- toria Price, the state’s star witness. “This will be less than the movk- ery of a trial. It is the preparation for a mass legal lynching. A Challenge to Toiling Masses. “Against this; only the orgeniza- tion of thousands of more Negro and white workers will suffice. The slogan, ‘the Scottsboro Boys shall not die,’ must not have been launched in vain. It becomes a challenge to the Negro masses and the working class of America, an acid test of their courage, of their will to fight for their very lives against the denial of f-cir c--" 'tu- tional rights, for their liberty and against lynch terror. “Organization must bring finances. Delegations must be prepared to carry the irrefutable truth of the lynch preparations before the gov- ernment. There must be no avenues left open through which the leaders of this government can escape and thing’ “The plans of the lynchers’ press, the tales of incitement to mob vio- lence, the proof of lynch prepara- tions secured by the unceasing, tire- less eforts of the International Labor Defense, must be placed in the laps of those who are most responsible. “The International Labor Defense sends out a clarion call to every Negro and white man, woman and child in America: repudiate that leadership that does not call at this hour for organization and heroic struggle against the enemy. “Close ranks with the militant or- ganization whose banners carry the call for full social, political and eco- nomic equality for Negroes. “Link up the struggle of the ‘plowed under’ Negro masses with the struggle of the oppressed native and foreign-born white workers. REVOLUTION” TOURNAMENT at HARLEM LABOR TEMPLE, 15 West 126th Street WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, at 8 P. M. 1 ow. way. lon Sc. Ringside 75¢, Admisst PROCEEDS TO THE DAILY WORKER DRIVE “Organization and funds, funds organization for the defense of Scottsboro, for the struggle for people. fundg at once to the International Labor Defense, Room 430, 80 East 11th St., New York City.” say, ‘we are not prepared for this | Maryland Officials Helped Lync Him ! e George Armwood, victim of Princess Anne, Maryland, as he jail shortly after his arrest on a exposing names of mob leaders an County and State officials in the lyn: | POVERTY, DEGRADATION OF NEGROES AND WHITES TO BE EXPOSED AT PUBLIC INQUIRY “DailyWorker” and L.S.N.R. Prepare Facts for Saturday’s Hearing;Anti-Lynching Conference in Baltimore Sunday to Take Action EDITOR’S NOTE—This is the fourth of a series of articles in which the Daily Worker is exposing the facts and the background of the wave of lynch terror which is sweeping over th moment around preparations to lynch the Sco*ttsboro boys, their attor- neys and witnesses. The Daily Worker will publish furthe * * What is the soc! background of and ecc lynch: gro farm la- on the East- fal mic sue of Struggle for Negro Rights sent an tor into the region, who ob- ined a vast amount of evidence in Tegard to the lynching and its ba ground, for presentation to the com- mission of inquiry of the Baltimore which will bestial Iynching in was being taken to charge of “grabbing | the arm” of a white woman on a public road. Material the murder of Armwood will be presented at a public hearing in Baltimore, Md., ti ‘urday, November 18, Armwood was lynched on October 18. Although the Daily Worker and the Baltimore Afro-American pub- id participation of | lished the naz of several of the mob lynchers, no ch incitement and | arrests have been made to date. ‘Baltinipre C Facts on Terror to Be Presented at Public Hearing in Baltimore BALTIMORE, Nov. 14.—The New Albert Auditoricm, at 1224 Penn- sylvania Ave. has been secured for | the Public Hearing and Anti-Lynch- ing Conference in this city on Nov. 18 and 19. Out-of-town delegates are re- quested to register with the Ar- rangements Committee at 418 Druid Hill, Ave, By HELEN KAY NEW YORK—‘“We'll put a stop to lynching,” declared Richard B, Moore, General Secretary of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, yesterday at the office of that or- ganization at 2162 Seventh Ave., “by forging a mighty alliance of Negro and white workers and all honest in- tellectuals against the lynchers.” ‘a nation-wide tour for the Scotts- ; boro boys, facing a new lynch trial on Nov. 27 and threats of an organ- ized lynching conspiracy, is busy making arrangements for the Public Hearing and delegated conference to be held in Baltimore, Md., on Nov. 18 and 19. Indicts Lynch Lords “The open campaign led by ruling class officials of the state of Ala- bama to lynch the nine Scottsboro boys at the approaching trial, to- | gether with the horrible lynching of George Armwood in Maryland, and the legal murder of Euel Lee, is evi- dence of a ruthless and growing mur- der campaign to crush Negro organ- ization and struggle, “declared Moore in a biting indictment of the oppres- sion of his race and class. ‘The League of Struggle for Negro Rights will gather together delegated representatives of many and varied organizations, in Baltimore, Mary- land, the state where Armwood was lynched, to lay the basis for the fur- ther rallying of the toiling masses to an organized and militant fight against such forms of ruling class bestiality. The Executive Board of the L. 5. N. R. met last Saturday and dis- cussed the plans and perspectives for this conference. Public Inquiry On Lynchers “At this conference plans for @ nation-wide investigation and scath- ing indictment of those increas'ng lynch murders, whether legal or ex- onference Will Launch Fight to End Lynching, Says Moore | tra-legal, will be outlined,” Moore “An important feature of the conference will be the public in- | quiry into the lynching of Armwood | to further establish the collusion of | declared. Public Inquiry Nov. 18 Anti-Lynch Conference, sit on Saturday, the day before the meeting of the delegated conference. Report on Mass Misery The first of these reports, dealing with the general economic and social situation of Negroes and poor whites, is given bel | To the political bosses of Maryland, the only importance of the Eastern | | Shore is that it must be carried in| For an election to carry the state. | this purpose, the blacks and w! are carefully divided by a consi ampaign of lynch-r » thrown to the ep them “contented” with the m |ery and degradation, second onl} to |taat of their Negro neighbors, into | which they are forced. | George Armwood, Matthew Wil- | ams and Euel Lee were in effect | such “sops” thrown to them by the political machine of Governor Albert C. Ritchie. Otherwise the region 1s neglected and left to decay in its isolation, In| | those nine counties, covering 3,400| square miles, with a population of | 200,000, there is no railroad and only } one main highway, running north }and south. A single road and four slow and ponderous ferry services are £ 1s e rs t a a a is 1¢ h, and centers at this > 1e in r exposures in this series. of * ae lutio’ s and which now yw 38 ser re of bourgeois stal ia manship gone to seed. c Little Industrial Development ze The majority of the people are i's small truck farmers, whose crops mae i- > later than those of Tidewater, 2% inia, across the bay, and conse- uen! ver bring top prices. People — y grow enough corn, potatoes, .«, ns and cabbage to see them through the winter. This, together with the seasonal oyster dredging and shucking, constitutes the principal ~ means of livelihood. h A few small canneries, shirt fac- tories and box factories, employing no more than 100 to 200 people, been opened, mainly in the water- front towns, but many of them have closed again in the past four years, In those that have remained open, wages run as low as 10 cents an hour, working more than ten and a half hours a day. Few Negroes Own Land Contrary to the general notion, there are more than twice as many whites as Negroes on the eastern shore. While more than two-thirds of the whites owned their land in 1931, only a little over a third of the Negroes were owners. The propor- tion of Negro share-croppers to the total number of Negro farmers has generally been about a third higher than among the whites, As far as values of farm lands and buildings went, the whites in each ccunty owned more than $5,000,000 worth, while the Negroes in each county owned between $200,000 and $300,000 worth of property. In other words, the Negroes comprising almost the sole connection with the main- land, Lynch Belt Most fsolated half the population owned one-twen- | ty-fifth of the estimated wealth in |land and buildings. With the sharp- ening of the crisis in the past two Into Lynching of Armwood Moore, who has just returned from | | county and state officials of all z Most isolated of all is the so-called F: others responsible. At this ingu sick crn | ynch-belt, where two years ago Mat- | ee teenies peageetion Cee Fes tribunal of workers and nor Ritch-/ thew Williams was taken from a hos-|has since been forced into depend- | als will be set up be hear ce testi See teaps te by a blood-thi Tuling-class | ence, jony ar pass judgment on the | mob, and lynched; re the legal| ™ ae | pa My Re brought to} igumiine of Euel Lee wes per ny Nogrecs Dee ae Ne ’ « ae : fore at the Public Hearing | where attempts were made to lynch; More than four times as many Ne- ° | The glaring facts exposed by the | bs Ly | lDaily Worker and the Beltimore| Tuscaloosa Delegation to Report | iim and his attorneys; where George | Stes as whites are forced to remain Afro-American on the horrible lynch- | delegation of the National! Armwood was stabbed, flogged, | llliterate. In Worcester County, which , | se for the Defense of Polit- | 2a2sed and burned. neems to have the Worst recityimas Walehe at L Paige how Gavestigating the | The territory known as the Iynch- | out of every four Negroes 4s illiterate, { Iynchings in’ Tuscaloosa, Alabama, | Pelt lies south of the Choptank River, | and one out of every 20 writes, This | - 9° 4 Will stop ait in Hattiniore to report | Our counties on the furthermost tip|ty per cent of the Negro e al a) in Drive to ine ip Heart na te findings in| %, the peninsula—Wicomico, Somer- ' stop school after the age of 13, and ¥, | Srila Ata terre fe » "| set, Dorchester and Worcester. The|22 per cent of the whites, Negro % | e ° + en ; bourgeois writer, H. L. Mencken, re-|Schools only run for eight months a ‘Break Strike in S ¢ Plans to broaden the scope of this/ fers to this region as “Trans-Chop- | year, white schools for nine months. , | le Ve! inquiry ae ve Seer barre aod fo tankia,” thouch, as a matter of fact,| There is also discrimination in the :- oe h the findings in orde x-| the lynch feeling runs high through- | salaries of Negro school teachers. In By JIM MALLORY se before the whole world the bru-| out the entire pentindla is | Wicomico County, for instance, Negro BATH, 8S. C, ,Noy. 14.—Violence and character of the fascist lynch) nreaten Ne=roes, Communists | teachers have recently been cut from brutality against the striking mill| V lence now Taging against the Ne- ‘Rboat'a year aa . ft |}$65 to $58 a month, while white » workers have marked the entire il b of the duttes| | 7 see em nee | teachers still get from $800 to $1,000 +! | course of strucgie of the textile one. cd Moore in| tives of Talbot County, in d S/a year, on the books. This year the ~ atives in South Carolina and Georgia |! ions of the Execu- uel Lee case with a visitor, re- | teachers in Wicomico have as yet Fe x SF “All the nigtors and all the! (jvaq | during the past week, | tive Board. ' ™ ceived no wages at all. Workers are on strike in the Horse| “We inter id to set forth the facts po rear to be buns.” ‘Te |" Masses on Verge of Starvation Greek Valley section of South Caro-| 2 the horrible persecution and mur-| Vile remied: ‘Mowe You want to| me majority of people on the Bast lina, and in Augusta, across the st: of the Negro people in the same | f |ern shore have always lived pretty * line, There are trikes at A ner as the ‘B Book of Hit-| | Two hours later his informant | close to the subsistence level, and 7 Bath, Langley, Warrenville, Gr: jler T é 2s the atrocities of | brought a gang of twenty men to at-| deaths from pellagra and malnutri- ~ | ville and Clearwater: tity for | “eck the stranger and drive him out.| tion fi tt ville and Clearwater, t e Out. | tion figure in the health records~ A machine-gun umit.of the Nat out) It 4s perfectly true, of course, that |always with a greater percentage -— | Guard has been sent. to the Ho: rpg og Rite fou~ southern counties on the | among the Negroes. In the past few Creek Valley area, and nationa ae ; vrei lies aan Eastern Shore are the most completely years, with the drop in farm prices, guardsmen patrol ali striking mili | “‘chstag fire and Hitler terrorism. isolated and ingrown. For Negroes |the closing of many of the seasonal villages. “= | Plan Nation-Wide Fisiit On Terror | and poor whites, this isolation from| industries and the falling off in Twenty-two strikers have been) «this inquiry and exposure will be | the main stream of modern industrial | oystering and crabbing, the struggle a arrested thus far, four of them/tne basis for the development of a, | Civilization is complete. The so-| for existence has sharpened a great women. q |broad, ovganized campaign against |Called “county families,’ however, | deal. That @ brazen frame-up is in prog- | jynching, for open resistance of white |f"equently come up to Baltimore for} Until very recently, however, lead- ress, and one which may have far-| and Nezro toilers to the lynchings,|™edical care, to shop or to see the ing citizens have protested that no reaching consequences, is seen in the| and for the death penalty for all) ‘aces, and they send their children | distress existed, that the people of fact that one of “the strikers is|jynchers. It will serve to intensify | away to school. their county, being “used to a low charged with assault and battery with | the struggle against the whole system “Old Families” in Control standard of living, are no worse off Hes ah Sa eae with carry-| of national and social oppression! Most of the books that have been |than they were and need no help.” ga concealed WEAR pa | hls breeds tmohing, Written up to now about the Eastern |The ruling class has covered up the ~ code went into operation, introduced | Rights cali mace ail weokers, Dcere | Shore stress the fine old southern | Sore spots and refused to allow any new stretch-out systems ‘which have | intellectuals, girs spe weg ee sre bk) bargin, i oles ot ehee adie i S y nd romantic ; y s Sere ee ou a hapa tk rey seiner cit indt to stand an J. Raskob, Democratic einen Ehecea The local relief consisted of a little = a Mo RA ee ra recap n bi pai “ is For shoe eer | mitteeman and backer of Tammany, | food in return for forced labor, with ; maximum, the pay of skilled and| called civilization and upon all the ip the pend pomesens of une.of, these: Sorne fuel, Bo eee ne seve ef semi-skilled workers having been organizations of every euaruaeee to ions. | Coal and steel barons, | tions i idbameicesd cde d i graded downwards. The workers are| rally to the support of the anti- pn aly from the Pittsburgh region, also discovering that, in epite of the| Iyching conference by sending 88/ here in pe a ate al Mes HEALTH TOPICS ; al e NL ‘ant many le} al * " eS b the right to organize, the employers| "Let this conference be the begin |/0Y the fishing and duck-hunting |, suggestion of publishing refuse to meet with union committees, | ning of a m'litant, determined strug- |S°@80NS in an. atmosphere removed |} “Your fifa ‘ and cite the N. R.A, provisions to| gle which will e’fectively halt the| ‘0% Sharp industrial struggles. oR ERR PRET ee back up their stand. Some of the old familes, who re-|{ topics is an excellent one”—says Furniture Workers Union Prepares NowHas 8,000Members After Leading forming the national committee of furniture workers for the end of es- tablishing one solid union in the in- dustry. From the small group which were represented at our Eastern States Conference, from five furniture centers, with a membership of 3,000 our National Committee can report today having functioning locals in 15 cities, with a membership of 5,230 with additional Action and Organi- zational Committees functioning in 12 other cities among 15,5000 furniture workers, Our union did not, however, ittee | concretizing the past strike experi- penetrate as yet the strategic furnt- ture centers such as Grand Rapids, New York, California, Illinois, Penn- sylvania, etc., where there are tens of thousands unorganized workers. Recommendations. The National Buro is pre concrete proposals and directives how to best improve our methods of work, ences, ‘The enlarged National Committee a'so will review the code in the Fur- niture Industry proposed at the Wash- ington, D. C., hearing, held October 9, 1933, supported wholeheartedly by Mr. Hatch, President of the Upholsterers, Linoleum and Carpet Mechanics In- ternational of the A. F, of L., who was sitting with the “government of- ficials,” helping to formulate a slave wage of 30c ‘per hour for the South and 34c¢ per hour for the North as a “minimum,” with 45 hours per week in the busy season, and 40 hours in the slack season. ‘The Furniture Workers’ Industrial Union through its representatives pre- murderous rising lynch terror.” as @ maximum, 70c minimum per hour for unskilled and 70c up to $1.75 per hour for skilled furniture work- ers, Work in A. F. L. Unions. The National Commitee will dis- paring | cuss carrying on of steady and sys- tematic work inside the A. F. of L. Yocals, building functioning groups in every local, establishing a national center for co-ordinating the fight of the rank and file membership against the strike breaker A. F. of L. leader- ship. Definite progress has been made by the opposition group in Local 77, Philadelphia, Pa., in the work of the union. United Front. Successful united front action was taken in the New York Upholsterers’ strike led by Local 76 and the F. W. I. U., when on Sept. 1st the strikers, led by the F. W. I. U., headed by their leaders, walked into the strike headquarters of Local 76 at Irving Plaza. Over the head of the reac- tionary misleaders uniting of the sented @ code calling for 30 hours workers in the strike was decided on and carried out by strikers in both Convention Organized in Fifteen Cities; Also Has Action Groups unions against the Trade Upholstery Factory in Long Island City. National Convention. The enlarged National Committee meeting will work out final plans for a National Convention of furniture workers to be held in January, 1934, for a solid foundation of one union n_one industry. Furniture centers, Action and Or- ganization Committees, Shop organi- zations throughout the country are urged to send delegates to attend this enlarged meeting. If distance does not permit the sending of a delegate, at least send in a complete comprehensive report on the wage, hours, and unemployment condi- tions, Send all information to: Workers’ Industrial Union, 812 Broadway, New York, N. ¥. 7% ceived their land-grants back as far as 1662, have managed to maintain themselves on their ancestral lands, though many of them have been obliged to sell.. They still have all the clannishness of an isolated caste, with ties made stronger by much inter- marriage. However poor they may be, even ruined completely in a num- ber of cases by the recent bank fail- ures, these old familes continue to | have great prestige and to control all the leading offices of the county. | There is a great deal of cracker-box politics in this region, which produced | so many leading statesmen of revo- | Furniture Union Rejects NRA Code WASHINGTON, D. C., Noy. 13.—A code presented by the Bedding Manu- | facturers’ Association proposing a 48- hour week and wages of 36 cents an hour was rejected by the representa- tives of the Furniture Workers’ In- dustrial Union at the hearing last week, The code provides for a lower scale of 32 cents an hour for the South and discriminates against young workers and women workers. The Union delegates demanded a 30-hour week and higher minimum wages our doctor, Such booklets are be- ‘ng published and are written by a regular medical man. They will eventually cover all health sub- ‘ects from the proletarian view- yoint. Some have appeared. Others are in preparation, They can be had at the WORKERS’ BOOK SHOP 50 East 13th Street, New York or throngh the publisher RATIONAL LIVING HEALTH TOPICS Box 4, Station M, New York. meres <gae Price: 20 cents a copy (Send no stamps) No. 1: How Is Your Stomach? (Foods, How to Eat, Indigestion, Con- stipation) Sex and Health (The Sexual Revolution; Anatomy and Physiolory; What is Menstruation?) Sex Life and Marriage (Essays on Sex Life; beng a